MintPPC

Recently, I found a nice little applet that shows the battery status on PowerPC based laptops.

To get mesa/X11 working on my iMac G5 iSight with Radeon X600 XT, with RV380 chipset, an adapted xorg.conf file was needed.

After a lot of debugging, fiddling and stuff I can now proudly announce that the latest mesa 26.2.1 from Debian experimental works on my iMac G5 with Radeon X600 XT GPU.

MintPPC now installs working downgraded mesa packages by default.

For about two years, the source package libbytesize is unable to be built on PowerPC.

Work is being continued on the unstable branch of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 Gigi arm64.

Yesterday I succeeded in making a Mint-Asahi image which can be flashed onto M1/M2 Macs with an installer script from Asahi Linux.

It came to my attention that xed, a lightweight text editor which is installed in MintPPC32 by default, no longer installs.

Lately I have been studying how Asahi Linux and Debian-Asahi Linux work and how it is installed bare metal onto Apple Silicon Macs.

The cross-platform file transfer program warpinator has been added to the LMDE 7 repository.